(A/N: Chapter 12! YAY! This chapter had less of the crazy impact I wanted. It made me slightly sad, but I do like the way it turned out it and fits in better than Lena going completely crazy. So enjoy!)

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Chapter 12: Breakdown.

"Lena?" Jay called as he walked into her room. He flicked on the light, but the light bulb shattered. The room was charged with an energy that made the hair on the back of his neck stand up.

"Jay, wait." Theresa told him, "Something's not right; this room is magically charged we don't know what'll happen."

"Do you sense something?" He asked his eyes still on Lena.

Theresa closed her eyes and concentrated, "It's muddled but…I'm getting an overwhelming feeling of fear. She's afraid."

Jay began walking towards Lena. "Everything's alright, don't worry. We're right here, there's no need to be afraid."

"What does he know?"Lena's step father's voice asked her. "You are a curse upon the people near you. First it was your mother, then your father and sister. Who next? Will it be one of these kids, one of your friends? It won't be long until you do, monster, and you know that."

Lena looked at Jay panicked, and suddenly the first barrier she placed up didn't seem like a strong enough protection between them. She added a second and third layer, putting Jay standing in front of the third. "Don't come any closer!" She looked at him with concern, and warned him again, "Please don't come any closer. I'm fine, so don't worry, just please don't come any closer."

"Alright. Come join us downstairs when you're ready." Jay told her, as he backed out of the room and closed the door. "So who's going to watch over her while the others talk?"

Archie sighed, "I will."

"Listen through her door closely, and make sure she doesn't do something stupid." Jay warned him, as the others began to gather in the kitchen.

"Alright." Archie nodded.

Jay headed downstairs where Odie was waiting for him before starting. "So what's wrong with her?"

Odie looked at them, "When she fainted two days ago I decided to delve deeper into her past. Okay so what we all know is that she was issued into the hospital for trying to take her own life two weeks after Christmas right? But what we didn't know is that two weeks before Christmas, she had gone for a physical. One month before she was issued into the hospital she weighed 120 pounds, but when they weighed her when she was brought in she was roughly 90 pounds. She lost 30 pounds in the two weeks after what happened with her stepfather. They found out that due to post traumatic stress disorder that she was bulimic, in a sense; she wasn't able to keep anything down. To put it bluntly her body was rejecting her, whether she wanted it to or not. I believe that's exactly what happening now."

"And we're just realizing this now?" Atlanta asked.

He frowned, "She was probably using magic to hide her appearance, a type of magic called Glamour; she used it on you during the Christmas party."

"What about nightmares?" Herry asked suddenly.

They all looked at him clearly confused, "What about nightmares?" Odie asked.

"Two weeks ago she explained to me that she produces fireballs while having nightmares." He looked at them desperately.

"Which is probably what happened tonight…" Jay said. "But…Does she have the power to do something like that?"

"During times of great distress powers can be heightened to that level. So yes, if she was able to access her core energy." Theresa told him, that's when they heard a scream.

Archie burst into Neil's room first, "What's wrong, Neil?"

Neil's face was buried into his bed; his sobs were drowned out by the mattress. "My portrait! It's ruined!" He pointed at the now charcoal black stained portrait.

"Really? I think it looks better that way." Archie turned to see the others come up the stairs. "Don't worry it was just Neil."

"Wait…" Theresa paused, "If we're all here, who's guarding Lena?" It took no more than a minute to get her door open, but it was too late, she was gone.

Lena had started her escape plan the moment Jay closed the door. It started with a quick note to Annette, then she got ready and then she waited for the opportune moment. That's when she heard it, the scream coming from Neil's room. That was moment she escaped through her window, and now she was walking through the city unsure of what to do. She couldn't go off very far because despite how she felt they still had a prophecy to fulfill.

She found herself standing in front of the back doors of the school. 'How did I end up here? Did I end up back tracking somewhere?' She wondered aimlessly. 'Maybe Hera will know what to do…maybe she could seal away this cursed power.' "Then I wouldn't be able to hurt the others." She touched the door handle and pleaded that her over heated touch didn't melt it. She was instantly grateful that it didn't and that the door wasn't locked.

Jay called Odie, "Odie any sign of her?" They had gone searching for Lena the moment she went missing.

"Not yet, but we will find her." Odie told him confidently.

"How's Herry doing?" Jay asked.

Odie sighed, "Good considering."

"Okay, Theresa, Neil and I are heading to the school to check if she's been there." Jay told him.

"Alright. Be careful, we're not at full strength without Lena, and Cronus might use that against us." Odie warned him.

"Right, you guys be careful too." He hung up and looked at Theresa and Neil. "Let's get to the school, with any luck she might have gone there."

Lena sat in front of Hera inside her study, "What is it, Lena? It must be something important if you're here this late. Is it Cronus?"

"It's not that, Hera…I was wondering if you could seal away my powers. They're dangerous, even more so when I have access to them." Lena looked down at her hands, clenching them together.

"But, Lena, you powers are part of you. You wouldn't be complete without them, and your friends depend on them." She frowned.

Lena looked at the Goddess and then back down at her hands. That's when the idea hit her, it wasn't her powers that were dangerous; it was her state of mind that made them dangerous, and what put her in this dangerous state of mind was her memories. She looked up at Hera, "Then please seal away my memories!"

Hera looked at the girl, she seemed determined. "If I did that…you would have no memories of the past two years, meaning you would have no memories of the others. You would have no memories of Herry."

Lena could feel her eyes go wide, and her hands clenched tighter together. "If it means they don't get hurt later on, then it doesn't matter."

Hera sighed, "Perhaps you should think this through more. You haven't been sleeping and you're not thinking clearly."

"I understand, thank you." She stood, bowed and then left.

Jay turned his back to where Theresa and Neil were sitting; as they watched the candles flicker. He called Odie, "Did you find her?" Odie asked desperately.

"Yes and no. Grab Archie and Atlanta, then meet us at the school."

He heard the sounds of tires screeching and Odie screamed, "What are you doing Herry? We'll call you back when we pick up the other two." Odie hung up.

"Just hurry." He pleaded to the empty PMR screen.

"Jay?" Theresa asked as she placed a hand on his shoulder.

He looked at her, his eyes pleading her own for some answer, "Why didn't we notice? How did we let it get this far?"

"She didn't want us to worry; there was nothing we could have done." She took his face in her hands.

"We could have been there for her, we could have noticed earlier."

"We were there for her, and we didn't notice because she didn't want us to." Rhiannon came up to them and made a noise. "See the dragon agrees with me."

"Alright, I give up." He admitted with a vague smile.

Atlanta ran into the room, "You found her?"

He sighed, "Take a look for yourself." He stepped aside to show the candles that rested in a circle around a sleeping Lena, who was curled into a ball.

"So she's alright?" Atlanta looked at Jay with concern.

He frowned, "Physically yes, but it seems she's somehow put herself in a magically induced coma…"

"Can't we try to wake her up?" Atlanta asked.

"Well about that…" They watched as Rhiannon moved to the circle of candles and curled her body around an invisible presence that seemed to be there. "We can't there's a barrier around her. We're not sure how or why though, it just kind of happened."

"Then what do we do now?" Archie asked, from the doorway.

Hera walked up to the group, "You kids are to go back to the dorm, Lena will be safe here tonight, and you will be safe at the dorm. We'll think of what to do tomorrow."

"But Hera!" Jay looked at his mentor with wide eyes.

She looked at him and frowned, "There are no buts about it you are to return to the dorm."

"Yes, Hera." He said with a sigh.

The next morning.

Athena looked at the group sitting at the table, "You kids…are really out of it today."

"So tired…" Atlanta's head met the table with a thud.

Odie walked up the stairs and into the kitchen sluggishly, "Quick…someone…grab the energy drinks…"

"Those things will kill you." Athena told him.

"I don't what you guys are so tired for, I sleep just fine last night." Neil told them.

Jay looked at him, "Only you would be able to sleep through a crisis."

"Yeah, I know. It's cause I'm awesome like that." He said as he checked himself out in his mirror.

"Where's Herry?" Theresa asked, she was biting her lower lip hoping the pain would keep her awake.

Herry walked down the stairs, with his teddy bear in his arms. They watched as he sat down at the table and put the teddy bear on top of the table, and then used it as a pillow. Archie looked at him and muttered, "Well I think we have a winner for who slept the least last night."

They ate their breakfast in silence, but their eyes kept wandering to where Lena usually sat. Jay looked at his plate, the pancakes sitting there only reminded him of that morning when two weeks ago when this all seemed to have started. Archie found himself holding an apple, thinking about how it was Lena's favorite morning projectile. Everyone jumped when Jay's hands met the table with a loud smack. "That's it! We aren't complete without her and I have no intentions of sitting around waiting for Hera to give us the okay for us to help her! Who's with me?"

"I was hoping you'd say that." Herry said with a smirk.

Archie looked up, "Let's do it."

Atlanta smiled, "Agreed."

"We're right behind you Jay." Theresa told him.

"Of course you're going to need me for this." Neil said.

"What do you want us to do?" Odie asked.

Jay looked at the group, and grinned. "Herry, Neil, Archie and I will go to the school, while you, Theresa and Atlanta check out her room, see if you can find anything helpful."

"Do I want to know why I'm teaming up with the girls? I could be more helpful to you than them" Odie asked while raising an eyebrow.

"She has a computer, check it out."

"But you're all going to finish your breakfast first right?" Athena asked although her tone left no room for argument.

"Yes…" The group said with a sigh.

Theresa was looking through Lena's closet, "I feel kind of bad looking through her stuff like this."

"At least you can do something, I cannot figure out her computer password." Odie's head hit Lena's desk loudly.

Atlanta stood beside Lena's bed, looking at the poster that was on the wall beside it, "This is a creepy poster do you think we could take it down?"

Theresa looked over at the poster, "Wow…she has bad tastes."

"Who's Lena's 'important person'?" Odie asked them.

Theresa and Atlanta shared a look, and then said, "Annette, obviously."

Odie typed it in, "Ah ha! Now we're in business." He watched as the screen was spammed with notifications and applications. A call from Lena's important person happened shortly after the applications finished loading. "What do I do? Do I answer it? Should I just leave it?" He was clearly flustered.

"Answer it!" Theresa told him.

He answered the call, and Annette's voice came through the speakers. "You finally logged on! What were you thinking leaving me a message like that then logging off? What the hell, man?"

Odie spoke, "Um…we're sorry but Lena's not here right now…in fact we're currently trying to figure out what's wrong with her…"

"What? What do you mean? What happened?" Her voice was panicked.

Theresa spoke, "Don't panic. It's just that she's…gone into a magically induced coma." She bit her lip hoping that she didn't tell Annette something she didn't already know.

"I see…" Annette sounded bored. "So she went through with it, then? There was a spell in her book, it said something about soul searching, and going into a coma like state. But there was a problem with it…when it came to Lena…" She paused.

"Problem?" Odie asked.

"Her memories…they're probably trapping her in that state. Lena has never really looked back and thought about her past…because of people always getting hurt around her. So she was never really able to overcome those problems, and things just got worse for her after Raphael came into their lives. We were actually intending to take in Lena when she turned sixteen but then that happened…and then when she appeared the night she ran away…it was short, and she was gone by the morning." She explained.

"So she's trapped in her memories?" Theresa asked.

"Probably." Annette sighed, and desperation filled her voice. "But please help her!"

"We were intending to do that all along." Odie told her. "Don't worry we'll bring your cousin back to you, I promise."

"Thank you…" Annette told them sincerely, "I'll let you get back to work." She cut the call.

"We should tell Jay what's happening." Theresa said.

"Can we take down this poster first? Because it is seriously creeping me out." Atlanta asked.

"Forget the poster for now." Odie told her, "Look for clues."

"Ah. I found a notebook." Atlanta picked it up. "December 18th: 115 pounds. December 19th: 114.5 pounds. December 25th: 110 pounds. The most recent entry is the December 30th: 103 pounds. That was four days ago, seems like your theory was correct." She waved the notebook at Odie.

"Of course it was." He continued to skim through Lena's computer with a sigh.

Jay, Archie and Herry were skimming through books from the school library. "I've got nothing." Jay told them.

"Me either." Archie said with a sigh.

"Neil quit looking at yourself, and help out." Herry told him.

Neil continued, "But I look amazing, how could I not look at myself?"

Jay's PMR went off, and he answered. "Jay here."

"We've figured what's wrong with a little help; we'll be at the school shortly, so meet us by Lena." Odie told him.

"A little help?" He asked.

Odie sighed, "It turns out that Annette knows more than Lena has ever let on."

"I see…" They walked into the room where Lena slept. "Okay…what's going on?" He stood blinking at the floating figures around Lena's barrier.

"I see you've met our guests." Apollo told them.

Jay shook his head, "It's the lack of sleep…I do not see any ghosts."

"No they're there, sorry to tell you Jay." Archie patted him on the back.

Theresa walked in with Odie and Atlanta, "Woah! Who're the ghosts?" She asked.

Jay looked back up at the floating figures, "This is bringing up bad memories of that time I almost died of chimera poisoning."

"Speaking of that, why haven't they been taken off by Atropos?" Odie asked.

"They were…they just didn't stay in Hades for long it seems." Hera told them with a sigh. "Meet Richard, Rayne and Karen Rose. It seems whatever spell Lena cast, it separated them from her body."

"That's Lena's family?" Herry asked slightly in awe.

Odie sighed, "Let's worry about them later. I said we figured what was going on and we did. It seems one of Lena's spells backfired on her and now she's trapped in her own memories."

"Hera, do you know anything that could help her out right now?" Atlanta asked.

"I don't, but I know of who might be able to help." She told them.

"Who?" Herry asked, suddenly relieved that there might be a way to help her.

"Mnemosyne."

Jay looked confused, "How will the mother of the Muses be able to help."

Hera looked at him with a raise eyebrow, "You of all people should know she is more than just the mother of the Muses, she is also the Goddess of memories. But finding her will mean having to go to Hades."